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A Review of Rat Lungworm Infection and Recent Data on Its Definitive Hosts in Hawaii

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2019
Rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) is a zoonotic nematode that causes rat lungworm disease (angiostrongyliasis), a potentially debilitating form of meningitis, in humans worldwide.
Chris N. Niebuhr, Susan I. Jarvi, Shane R. Siers   +2 more
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Field safety and efficacy of an orally administered combination of sarolaner, moxidectin and pyrantel (Simparica Trio®) for the prevention of angiostrongylosis in dogs presented as veterinary patients

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Infection with the cardiopulmonary nematode Angiostrongylus vasorum may cause severe disease in dogs, therefore prophylactic treatments are necessary to prevent infection in dogs at risk. A clinical field study was conducted to demonstrate the
Csilla Becskei, Jakob L. Willesen, Manuela Schnyder, Magda Wozniakiewicz, Nataliya Miroshnikova, Sean P. Mahabir   +5 more
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Autochthonous Angiostrongylus cantonensis Lungworms in Urban Rats, Valencia, Spain, 2021

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
To determine the role of rats as potential reservoirs of zoonotic parasites, we examined rats trapped in urban sewers of Valencia, Spain, in 2021.
María Teresa Galán-Puchades, Mercedes Gómez-Samblás, Antonio Osuna, Sandra Sáez-Durán, Rubén Bueno-Marí, Màrius V. Fuentes   +5 more
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Release of Lungworm Larvae from Snails in the Environment: Potential for Alternative Transmission Pathways [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Gastropod-borne parasites may cause debilitating clinical conditions in animals and humans following the consumption of infected intermediate or paratenic hosts.
A Di Cesare, A Giannelli, A Giannelli, AJ Norton, Alessio Giannelli, Antonio Varcasia, C Tamponi, CA Waugh, CB Gerichter, CL Mendonça, CLGF Mendonça, CM Adema, CY Yii, D Heyneman, D Otranto, DH Molyneux, Domenico Otranto, DU Olveda, E Brianti, E Brianti, Emanuele Brianti, ER Morgan, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Francesca Abramo, G Annoscia, I Paperna, JE Ubelaker, JL Teem, Luigi Falsone, M Campion, Mark T. Fox, Martin Knaus, Matty Knight, P Seneviratna, QP Wang, RA Ramos, Rafael Antonio do Nascimento Ramos, RC Anderson, RH Cowie, SC Thiengo, SJ Kutz, SN Boev, SS Wu, TA Barçante, TC Cheng, TM Caro, TM Caro, TN Petney, TP Ng, VC Bonetti, Vito Colella, W Jeżewski   +51 more
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Lungworm seroprevalence in free-ranging harbour seals and molecular characterisation of marine mammal MSP

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2016
Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) are frequently infected with the lungworms Otostrongylus circumlitus and Parafilaroides gymnurus. The infection is often accompanied by secondary bacterial infections and can cause severe bronchopneumonia and even death in ...
Sophia Arlena Ulrich, Kristina Lehnert, Ana Rubio-Garcia, Guillermo J. Sanchez-Contreras, Christina Strube, Ursula Siebert   +5 more
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Grassland management and helminth control on cattle farms [PDF]

, 2017
Farmers manage their pastures and grazing animals primarily to ensure that swards provide adequate, quality nutrients to support animal performance, but it is also possible to provide useful levels of parasite control without compromising production.
Forbes, Andrew
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Host–parasite interactions during a biological invasion: The fate of lungworms (Rhabdias spp.) inside native and novel anuran hosts

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2015
The cane toad invasion in Australia provides a robust opportunity to clarify the infection process in co-evolved versus de novo host–parasite interactions.
Felicity B.L. Nelson, Gregory P. Brown, Catherine Shilton, Richard Shine   +3 more
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Crenosoma striatum in lungs of European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europeus) from Portugal

Helminthologia, 2020
Crenosoma striatum is a host-specifi c metastrongiloid nematode causing respiratory tract disease in hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus). Since few studies have reported C.
Barradas P. F., Flores A. R., Mateus T. L., Carvalho F., Gärtner F., Amorim I., Mesquita J. R.   +6 more
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Determinants of lungworm specificity in five cetacean species in the western Mediterranean

Parasites & Vectors, 2021
Background Current data about Pseudaliidae show contrasting patterns of host specificity between congeneric species. We investigated how both contact and compatibility between hosts and parasites contributed to the patterns of lungworm infection observed
Rachel Pool, Clara Romero-Rubira, Juan Antonio Raga, Mercedes Fernández, Francisco Javier Aznar   +4 more
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A recombinant antigen-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for lungworm detection in seals

Parasites & Vectors, 2015
Background Pinnipeds are frequently infected by the lungworms Otostrongylus circumlitus and Parafilaroides gymnurus (Metastrongyloidea). Infections are frequently associated with secondary bacterial bronchopneumonia and are often lethal.
Sophia Arlena Ulrich, Kristina Lehnert, Ursula Siebert, Christina Strube   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source